noun. A stiff hair.

noun. A stiff hairlike structure.

intransitive verb. To stand stiffly on end like bristles.

intransitive verb. To raise the bristles.

intransitive verb. To react in an angry or offended manner.

intransitive verb. To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles.

intransitive verb. To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.

intransitive verb. To furnish or supply with bristles.

intransitive verb. To make bristly; ruffle.

noun. One of the stiff, coarse, glossy hairs of certain animals, especially those of the hog kind which are not hairless, large and thickly set along the back, and smaller and more scattered on the sides.

noun. A similar appendage on some plants; a stiff, sharp hair.

noun. In dipterous insects of the division Brachycera, the arista or terminal part of the antenna.

noun. In ornithology, a bristly feather; a feather with a stout stiff stem and little or no web.

To erect the bristles of; erect in anger or defiance, as a hog erects its bristles.

To make bristly.

To fix a bristle on: as, to bristle a shoemaker's thread.

To rise up or stand on end like bristles.

To stand erect and close together like bristles.

To be covered, as with bristles: as, the ranks bristled with spears. See to bristle with, below.

To manifest conspicuously: as, he bristled with excitement.

intransitive verb. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.

intransitive verb. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.

intransitive verb. To show defiance or indignation.

intransitive verb. to show anger or defiance.

noun. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

noun. A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.

transitive verb. To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.

transitive verb. To fix a bristle to.

noun. A stiff or coarse hair.

noun. The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

noun. A humorous misspelling of Bristol, in imitation of the local dialect in the English city of that name,

verb. To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.

verb. be in a state of movement or action

verb. react in an offended or angry manner

verb. rise up as in fear

noun. a stiff hair

verb. have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles

noun. a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic

"The Major looked at the Texans with cold contempt—the tone of his voice alone made Call bristle."

bridle  rictal bristles  to bristle against  to bristle up  to bristle with  

bristled  bristling  

feature  fiber  fibre  hair  have  

antimissile  dismissal  epistle  fissel  fissile  

blotch  braid  curl  eyebrow  fringe  

Vandyke  acuminate  aggravate  anger  annoy  

bristled  bristles  bristling